purchased by the dealers and farmers of Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex.  Opposite the cheese fair, on the north side of the road, stood the small chapel, which was then used as a warehouse for wool, hops, seed, and leather[3].  Here were the wool-staplers, hop-factors, leather-sellers, and seedsmen.  The range of booths in the front were for glovers, leather-breeches makers, saddlers, and other dealers in leather.  Opposite to this, at the end of the line of show-booths, Garlick-row commenced; the first range being occupied by hardwaremen, silversmiths, jewellers, and fine ironmongery.  The next range was the row of mercers and linen-drapers, where a draper from Holborn had a stock of not less than 5,000_l_. value.  The next range of booths was occupied by stuff-merchants, hosiers, lacemen, milliners, and furriers; here one vender has been known to receive from 1,000_l_. to 1,200_l_. for Norwich and Yorkshire goods.  A lace-dealer from Tavistock-street likewise attended here with a stock of 2,000_l_. value, together with many other respectable tradesmen, with goods according to the London fashion.  Then followed the ladies and gentlemen’s shoe-makers, hatters, and perfumers; and next to the inn was an extensive store of oils, colours, and pickles, kept by an oilman from Limehouse, whose returns were seldom less than 2,000_l_. during the fair; and the father of the writer of this article, who attended the fair during forty years, usually brought away from 1,200_l_. to 1,500_l_. for goods sold and paid for on the spot, exclusive of those sold on credit to respectable dealers, farmers, and gentry.  On the outside of the inn were temporary stables for baiting the horses belonging to the visiters.  The carriages were drawn up in the fields in a line with the stables or standings for the horses.

Next was the oyster fair; the oysters from Lynn, called the Lynn channel, were the size of a horse’s hoof, and were opened with a pair of pincers.  At the bottom, in the Mead, next the river, was the coal fair; opposite which were the pottery and fine Staffordshire wares.  Returning to and opposite the oyster fair was the horse fair, held on the Friday in the week after the proclamation.  The show of beautiful animals here was, perhaps, unrivalled by any fair in the empire; the choicest hunters and racers from Yorkshire, muscular and bony draught-horses from Suffolk and every other breeding county, drew together dealers and gentlemen from all quarters, so that many hundreds of valuable animals changed masters in the space of twelve hours.  Higher up was Dockrell’s coffee-house and tavern, spacious and well stored with excellent accommodations.  About 200 yards onward was Ironmonger-row, where the dealers from Sheffield, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other parts, kept large stocks of all sorts of iron and tin wares, agricultural implements, and tools of every description.  About 20 yards from them, westward, and bordering on the road, were slop-sellers, dealers in haubergs, wagoners’ frocks, and other habiliments for ploughmen; and next, the Hatters’-row.  Behind Garlick-row, next the show booths, stood the basket fair, where were sold rakes for haymakers, scythe-hafts, and other implements of husbandry, of which one dealer has been known to sell a wagon-load or two.